William Shakespeare Quotes
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That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
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Grace and remembrance be to you both.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
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The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
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Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
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Swift as shadow, short as any dream
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There is a world elsewhere.
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'Tis pride that pulls the country down.
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Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
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Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
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Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.
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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
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Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?